Hebrew Vowels & Cantillation marks Alignment Issues

[Leivíche Design]

Hi,

I am having allignment issues when typing Hebrew Bible text - Torah with the vowels and cantilations mark.

They automaticly overlaping each other under the letter causing some confusin and lack of clarity. Can anyone help will greatly apprecited!

Thanks,

Levi

[haggay]

Hello Levi,

The creator of the font is responsible for such things. He should consider Simanim conflicts.

Anyway, you can fix them one by one, in the "Diacritics position" window. For example, select the Mercha and in diacritics window change its location. If it's a big file then this is an ant work, so think about buying more effective font.

Regards,

Lewi

[studioi57873982]

Do you maybe know if there is an automatic way to remove the cantilation marks but leave the the other marks? 

[kennyr34495207]

I'm sure there exists some script somewhere. Its probably really easy to make, since its just a script to delete certain glyphs from the text.

As a layman when it comes to scripts I would just "Find and Replace" each cantilation mark and replace with no text.

Or I would go to Sefaria.org and toggle the nikkud without cantilation mark button and re-copy and paste the text from there (only the text that is free for open use.)

[kennyr34495207]

I have had this same issue for a long time. There doesn't seem to be a fix for it.

Firstly, using the Diacritics position doesn't change anything when I try to do it manually.

Second of all, it is NOT something the creator of the font should consider. When I use the same exact text in the same exact font in Microsoft Word, the nikkud lines up correctly. Indesign messes it up, and I can't seem to find a fix for it.

[kennyr34495207]

To clarify, I am using the CC version that has ME in it and its tagged as hebrew text.

[Isaac281408360kfh]

Hi @haggay, I haven't seen a font where this issue doesn't exist. If you know of any fonts, please do recommend them. 

[kennyr34495207]

Font I purchased that works in Indesign is Hebrew Vilna Tanach. Bought it straight from the designer and he offered to help with nikkud for any other font.

Looking at my last posts, I guess I was wrong and it is something the creator of the font needs to consider.